Published by Mentor Books - New American Library, New York, 1960
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 366 pp. Mentor Book MT315. Edge and corner wear with a partial crease on the front cover and an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Edited with Morton Berman and William Burto. This anthology contains: THE PLAYS: John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw; The Canavans by Lady Gregory; Deirdre of the Sorrows by John Millington Synge; The Words Upon the Windowpane by William Butler Yeats; La La Noon by Jack B. Yeats; In the Train by Frank O'Connor; Purple Dust by Sean O'Casey. THE ESSAYS: In Dublin by Max Beerbohm; Advice to Playwrights Who Are Sending Plays to the Abbey Dublin by William Butler Yeats; The Day of the Rabblement by James Joyce; A Lyric Voice in the Irish Theatre by Frank O'Connor; and A Whisper about Bernard Shaw by Sean O'Casey. Book.
Published by Konecky and Konecky, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, 2009
ISBN 10: 1568522363 ISBN 13: 9781568522364
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. (x) 500 pp. Gray boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: She Went by Gently by Paul Vincent Carroll; The Islandman by Desmond Clarke; The Lady on the Grey by John Collier; The Return; and The Awakening by Daniel Corkery; Saint Bakeoven by Eric Cross; The Kith of the Elf Folk by Lord Dunsany; The Burial by St. John Ervine; Something in a Boat by Padraic Fallon; Miss Gillespie and the Micks by Arnold Hill; The Leaping Trout by David Hogan; Araby; and Counterparts by James Joyce; Football by Patrick Kavanagh; The Story of the Widow's Son by Mary Lavin; All the Sweet Buttermilk; and Duet for Organ and Strings by Donagh MacDonagh; Myself and a Rabbit by Michael MacGrian; The Wild Duck's Nest; and Father Christmas by Michael McLaverty; The Cat and the Cornfield; and The Plain People of England by Bryan MacMahon; Julia Cahill's Curse by George Moore; The World Outside by Val Mulkerns; The Devil and O'Flaherty by Padraic O Conaire; The Drunkard; and The Majesty of Law by Frank O'Connor; Teresa; and Persecution Mania by Sean O'Faolain; The Tent; and The Hawk by Liam O'Flaherty; Michael and Mary; and Nan Hogan's House by Seumas O'Kelly; The Martyr's Crown by Brian O'Nolan; Bell Wethers by Jim Phelan; Weep for Our Pride by James Plunkett; The Miraculous Revenge by George Bernard Shaw; The Black Mare by Edward Sheehy; A Rhinoceros Some Ladies and a Horse; and Schoolfellows by James Stephens; Come Back My Love by Maurice Walsh; The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde; Where There Is Nothing There is God; and Red Hanrahan by William Butler Yeats; followed by Notes on the Authors. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by Home & Van Thal, London, 1946
Seller: Letters Bookshop, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. [76pp]: foliated [i]-x, 1-[68] with leaf 63/4 conjugate to the rear pastedown; gilt olive linen, lacking jacket; 185 x 125 x 6 mm. Belated English edition (originally 1941: Dublin & 1942: New York). A testimonial to the allure of the New Woman.
1995 1ST FINE /FINE.